Renewed Philology Renewed Philology is an international working grouping of scholars inwards biblical studies whose operate reflects critically on the intellectual frameworks brought to send inwards philological practice. The operate of this grouping is various inwards its interests, interdisciplinary inwards its readings of ancient texts together with the recovery of ancient world-views, together with meta-critical inwards its practices. We are comprised of a core group of researchers together with are supported yesteryear a broader advisory board.
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Why nosotros started this group
The systematic written report of language, literature, their reception together with their transmission has been key to didactics together with intellectual action since the evolution of the written discussion itself. Philology has been foundational to approaches to the yesteryear together with the evolution of ideas near the present.
In the history of ideas, the scholarly together with pedagogical activities that are constitutive of philology accept been essential inwards the formation of our identities through ancient texts together with inwards situating together with reintroducing the yesteryear during the Renaissance together with Enlightenment.
In the modern academy, scholars from dissimilar disciplines utilise like methodologies on sometimes vastly dissimilar corpora. But sometimes ongoing operate inwards subjects together with cultures from Ancient Mesopotamia through Modern FRG labors without the hit goodness of a deep agreement of philology’s ain history equally a champaign of written report together with inwards particular, the inequalities its ways of knowing accept historically produced.
We assay to reshape philology’s hereafter through agreement its past. Through our work, nosotros promise to renew the value of careful attending to linguistic communication together with the cultural values encoded inwards linguistic communication together with detect forgotten or overlooked lines of enquiry within philological practices. Faculty together with students working inwards various disciplines stand upward to hit goodness from learning near each other’s operate inwards philology within together with exterior the classroom. While our focus is specifically on biblical philology together with the unique challenges faced to the written report of these corpora, our grouping is engaged alongside ongoing operate inwards other philological disciplines.
What nosotros are interested in
We are especially concerned alongside what biblicists (and practitioners of other related areas) hateful when they utter of “philology,” equally both a ready of reading practices together with an integrated theory of language. We are interested broadly inwards interventions inwards philology together with its historical-critical posture that reverberate critically upon gender, race, class, religious identity, together with other dependent positions embedded inwards the intellectual frameworks nosotros convey to send when nosotros hit philological work.
We are interested inwards posing wide questions of ancient texts together with the cultures that are reflected inwards together with constructed yesteryear them, such equally notions of artistic production, beauty, truth, justice, transmission, personhood, the self together with the other, identity, community, together with the religious imagination.
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What nosotros do
The members of this grouping are engaged inwards a number of research projects, devise together with convene a number of activities nether the drapery of Renewed Philology.
Core members of this group are founders together with chairs of key plan units within the Society of Biblical Literature, including Philology inwards Hebrew Studies together with Book History plan units.
Our get-go conference, Legendary Characters: Attribution together with Personhood inwards Jewish Antiquity, was convened at Princeton University inwards Apr 2019. Learn to a greater extent than near recent together with upcoming events.
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